[Sussex] Kernel compilation gone horribly wrong

[Captain Redbeard]

Please help,

I'm using Slackware 10.1 which comes with the 2.4.29 kernel 
by default.  The problem is that I've got a CD-burner and a 
Speedtouch USB modem both of which per the relevant HOW-TO's 
run better with a 2.6 kernel.  Unfortunately I've been 
bashing my head off a brick wall for the past several days 
trying to get a working compilation.  I've made about six 
separate attempts to get all my hardware properly setup and 
running and have yet to succeed.  I did manage to get the CD 
burner working and the modem does seem to be recognised, 
even though it doesn't work yet, but I cannot get either of 
my NIC's working, even though they both work fine under the 
2.4.29 kernel.  I've been through the entire menu system 
carefully several times, reading all the help messages, but 
to no avail.  I've now come to the point where I really 
don't know what to do anymore and have been unable to find 
anything that will help.  Though there are several tutorials 
on kernel compilation I've found none that go into details 
on the configuration itself, they normally just deal with 
everything else and skip over that section.  Therefore I 
would like to know if there is anybody willing to take a 
look at my configuration and tell me where I'm going wrong.

The following are the machine specs:

Motherboard: Foxconn 600A01 (5 x PCI, 1 x AGP, 4 x USB 2.0)
CPU: Sempron 2.2GHz
Graphics card: AGP GeForce2 MX 400 w/64Mb
Audio: On-board VIA VT1616 (AC'97 2.2)
NIC 1: On-board VIA VT6103L
NIC 2: TrendNet TE100-PCIWN (though the default kernel 
recognises is as a Realtek RTL8139)
Hard drive (/dev/hda): Maxtor 6B200P0 (200Gb)
DVD drive (/dev/hdc): Atapi DVD-ROM 12X
CD-R drive (/dev/hdd): Matshita CD-R CW-75
Modem: Alcatel Speedtouch USB revision 4

The .config file itself is too large to post here but I've 
put it on the 'net at 
http://freespace.virgin.net/black.rebel/kernel-config

The computer itself I would eventually like to use as a 
server for a small home network (mainly for self-education 
purposes) which would include a Win XP laptop.  Because of 
this I've included a Samba server as well as several other 
network-related services in the config though I don't 
understand what they all mean and don't really know if I 
need or not.  Other than that I have ruthlessly disabled all 
options that I don't have any need for (so no SCSI, 
parallel, ISA support, etc).  All of the hardware I 
mentioned is listed and supposedly selected in the config 
but I still cannot get my NIC's working at all.  When I boot 
into the kernel and type "ifconfig eth0" I get the error message

eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

with a similar result for "ifconfig eth1".  Is anybody able 
to have a look at my config file and tell me where I'm going 
wrong or is the problem likely to be elsewhere?



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Captain Redbeard



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